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...King, at least in the printed version, will soon be no more. USA Today, claiming it wants to end King's 19-year reign while he is still at the top of his game, has canceled his column, which will make its last appearance on Sept. 24. Perhaps if he hadn't done his TV show and had just stuck with his stress-free column job, King would have been appreciated more for his print work. He'd also probably still be on wife No. 1 and heart No. 1. Instead, I am left here to mourn King not only...
...winning he does, Krzyzewski doesn't talk much Xs and Os. Ask him why Duke has been so superior under his reign, and he'll cite the influence of his wife and three daughters. "Over the years, the girls have exposed me to an environment where they share their feelings, and I've tried to teach my players to do the same thing. I tell them it's not guys doing girl things; it's being a real person--to hug, to cry, to laugh, to share. If you create a culture where that's allowed, all of a sudden...
...Representatives, though, has a nasty tendency to devour its leader. The Speaker's gavel has changed hands four times in the past 14 years. Tip O'Neill was the last Speaker to leave without being ousted by scandal or electoral defeat. Denny Hastert may hope for a long reign in the top job. But if the economy keeps going south, Hastert, the former high school economics teacher, may be undone by the subject he once taught...
...career and marriage. In The Apartment and many pictures that followed (The Out-of-Towners, Save the Tiger, The China Syndrome, JFK), he played a businessman in danger of being betrayed by his own best instincts--the sad-clown face of America at the twilight of its imperial reign, the Organization Man whom the organization would crush. Lemmon in his maturity was Job with a white-collar...
...inglorious way for a princess--warrior or otherwise--to end her reign, but if nothing else, the series Xena: Warrior Princess seemed to come to a definitive conclusion. After six seasons, the show's final episode saw Xena, played by LUCY LAWLESS, being riddled with arrows and decapitated. Her corpse was later hanged from a tree and cremated. On the plus side, she did vanquish some evil spirits. But that wasn't enough to pacify fans of the show. An angry rabble has taken to the Internet, complaining on fan sites of the violent nature of Xena's death...